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Starliner to Earth: “We have a problem…”

June 17, 2024
MThomas

Starliner, the Boeing spacecraft whose launch was delayed by a helium leak, has now developed four additional helium leaks after docking successfully with the ISS.

They had to delay the docking due to a little problem with thrusters…

Five of the 28 thrusters were not operating but, after troubleshooting, Boeing recovered four of Starliner’s malfunctioning jets and NASA allowed the spacecraft to dock.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/boeing-nasa-delay-starliner-astronaut-return-june-22-rcna157259

So their return to Earth has been delayed so that they can run some more tests.

I sure hope they have built some redundancies to this system. Remember, this is Boeing. QC is not exactly high on their priorities list…

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